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That is obvious.  No one in any of these threads is disputing this.[/quote]

Are you reading the same thread?  People are questioning this on every page.  People are stating that the parent ranking hold the more weight then it actually does.  Go back to each page and you'll find at least one post where someone is saying having a school ranked #1 gives you priority over someone who ranked it #2 but with a better preference.  That is not at all true and misrepresents a stable matching algorithm.[/quote]

You conveniently cut out your post that I was responding to.  Wow, are you that desperate to appear right?

Since you seem to have forgotten what you said:

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Here's what putting a school at #1 does - it makes it your #1 school choice.  If you get accepted in it, then great.  If you don't then it moves down the line.  It says, "I prefer this over the other schools I selected, so if I get in, I want to keep it".  Your #2 school says "I prefer this over the other schools I selected accept for #1, and if I get into #2 then great!  If I get into #1 then disregard #2 and give me #1".[/quote]

You do not raise the bigger question that we are all arguing about in this quote.  That is why THIS is obvious.

So, show ANYWHERE in this thread where the part of the process that you describe above is questioned?  [/quote]

4 posts above this (from 11:49) provide an example from page 14 where someone gets it wrong and assume a parent who ranks a school as #1 has greater weight than a parent who ranks the same school as #4. [/quote]

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